Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 359: Abundant resources

? Time passed quickly, and now is the fourth year that a new civilization has stayed on this planet... The entire fleet can't wait to start preparing for the next trip. 35xs

Four years, compared to the entire universe, is only a short moment, but for the humans in Kunlun Mountain, it is a lot of time and can do a lot of things.

At the beginning of the fourth year, about 110,000 people took a large transport spacecraft "Pelican", left the star field, and returned to their base camp behind them. This population figure is 10,000 less than expected.

Now, the day before we set off again, the entire fleet has undergone tremendous changes.

The damaged parts due to the war have been completely repaired, and people have added some new magnetic field generators to the outside. That is, one voyage is enough to achieve higher speeds and longer distances.

At the same time, the internal defense measures were completely reorganized, and the weapons in the outer military corridors were all updated. Not only are some automated defensive weapons, but there are also some additional military fortresses. If you encounter the next information paralysis, relying on these internal fortresses, you can also defend for a long time.

In particular, the entire network system is divided into five levels of security.

The first-level network is a civilian network, a second-level laboratory network, a third-level military network, and a fourth-level emergency communication network, while the fifth-level is a network system represented by Pangu Brain.

Each layer of the network is isolated from each other and has very strict security measures.

On the other hand, as the deadline for this rectification is about to be reached, the various warehouses in Kunlun Mountain are filled with various material resources, which have gradually become saturated...

Zhang Yuan himself is too busy!

Seeing boxes of boxes of gold, platinum, and silver being transported up by the space elevator, all of which are real high-purity products, he has a magical pleasure like a miser!

Humans... really are visual animals, and naturally like these shiny things.

Well, gold and silver are not the so-called general equivalents for a long time, but they are good industrial products.

New humans can even be extravagant enough to use silver to make wires. Although there are superconducting materials now, ordinary wires still exist in terms of cost and reliability.

Not only Zhang Yuan, but also ordinary citizens. Everyone can see the endlessly working robots under the space elevator, and boxes full of goods, and they can always feel very good.

In particular, this planet, as a young planet, has heavy minerals that can be mined on the surface, far exceeding the normal terrestrial planets.

The reason for this phenomenon is because... it is too young.

For example, the earth does not lack minerals such as gold, silver and platinum. How much gold does the earth possess?

Six trillion tons!

But how many humans have mined from the earth?

Very little, about 120,000 tons, a trivial one-half billionth.

This is because, with the passage of time, most of the heavy elements gradually sink to the depths of the earth's core under the action of gravity.

Even if it reaches the level of close to the third level of interstellar civilization, it is impossible for humans to dig up gold in the depths of the earth's core.

Because of the scarcity of gold on the earth, people can only develop Mars and Mercury. Especially Mercury, so it will become a mineral planet and a heavy industry base in the surrounding solar system engineering system behind.

But this planet is different. Due to the short time of birth, there are still many heavy metals that have not had time to sink to the core of the earth. Coupled with frequent volcanic eruptions, minerals will erupt again.

A lot of precious resources fall on the ground like garbage. If you don’t take this opportunity to get more, it’s a sin!

"Hey, Kunlun Mountain is not big enough, it doesn't have tonnage anymore. It's pretty good now." Zhang Yuan was sighing sadly. He felt like a certain greedy creature in a fantasy novel—the giant dragon. Can't wait to patrol these Jinshan Yinshan again.

The large warehouse being patrolled now is in a gravity-free vacuum zone. Everyone is wearing power armor, and behind him are several assistants in the secretary department, constantly speaking out various data.

"The demand for gold in our entire civilization is not very large. It is mainly used in space glass and personal jewelry, so the current reserve is 50,000 tons."

"And these uranium-235 raw materials, uranium hexafluoride, have been purified and can be used in fission power stations and the manufacture of radioactive batteries... Oh, there is also the manufacture of electromagnetic artillery shells. These electromagnetic artillery When hitting the target, it will produce fission explosion and cause radioactive pollution. It is better than nothing..."

"The current reserve is 120,000 tons."

"Helium-3 reserves are even larger, and it is the main nuclear fuel."

It is the natural nature of people to love wealth. These young people in the secretarial department, as they talked, looked ruddy inexplicably~IndoMTL.com~ as if they themselves were billionaires.

"...Oh, and this piece is plutonium-239, a companion product of the breeder reactor, which can be used to make batteries. The reserve is about two hundred tons."

Plutonium-239 is changed from uranium-238, that is, after uranium-238 is put into the reactor and irradiated, it absorbs a neutron and becomes uranium-239, and then releases 2 negatively charged electrons, making 92 protons When the number is increased to 94, the element position is advanced by 2 positions, and the nature is changed to plutonium-239.

The reason why these radioactive minerals are still needed is not only for weapons, but also for the safety of the spacecraft. After all, nuclear fusion is a complex energy source that cannot be used as long as it is slightly disturbed. The nuclear fission is relatively simple, and the existence of two sets of power systems can better guarantee the energy supply of the spacecraft.

"The materials in these warehouses are basically like this..."

After listening to these reports, Zhang Yuan was in a pretty good mood. After patrolling these material reserves, the last thing was completed. The Kunlun Mountain fleet will set off again tomorrow to leave this planetary system without a master.

He suddenly thought of something and asked: "By the way, those biologists, have they found the most primitive life on this planet? They have searched for a lot of craters, haven't they found anything?"

"Your Captain, I am sorry, but not yet." Dr. Li Cheng replied: "Our drone dug some soil specimens in different volcanic craters, and there are some complex organic matter inside."

"But after judgment, it is not real life. If you want to truly evolve life, 400 million years is too little, and it may take 7.8 billion years."